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  • Immigrants Find U.S. Soil

    Immigrants Find U.S. Soil

    PAPER FIVE “More Immigrants find roots in U.S. Soil” 1 Using the text from the book there are three demographic variables; fertility, mortality, and migration. Fertility is the number of children an average woman bears (text pg. 394). Mortality refers to the annual number of deaths per 1,000 population (text pg 394). Finally, migration in the difference between number of people moving in (immigrants) and the number of people moving out (emigrants) per 1,000 poplulation

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    Essay Length: 525 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Language and Culture in an Immigrant Society

    Language and Culture in an Immigrant Society

    The professor of my linguistics anthropology course this year, stepped up to the podium on the first day of class, and surprised us all with his feelings regarding language. He began by telling us that he specializes in human misery, perhaps insinuating language is a source of misery. Dr. Song is a Korean immigrant and the sounds of his own language repulses him. Growing up in modern society America has made him cringe at the

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Monika
  • A Nation of Immigrants

    A Nation of Immigrants

    A Nation of Immigrants The question of what our policy toward the world’s huddled masses should be is especially topical at this moment. The Statue of Liberty still lifts her lamp beside the golden door, but in a time of economic downturn, there is no longer an assured consensus that the door should be kept open very far. Restrictionism is back in fashion. For every journalistic article like that of Business Week in July 1992,

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    Essay Length: 261 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Immigrants in Usa

    Immigrants in Usa

    Immigrants come to the United States to look for work and to increase their finances. Similarities between old and new immigrants are that that are willing to accept the lowest paid jobs, their concentration in a few port cities, and settling in urban destinations. Differences are that the “old” immigration was overwhelmingly European and white, but the present inflow is, to a large extent, nonwhite and comes from 3rd world countries. Nuclear Family: a family

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Edward
  • Same-Sex Marriage: Should It Be Legal or Illegal?

    Same-Sex Marriage: Should It Be Legal or Illegal?

    Same-sex Marriage: Should It Be Legal Or Illegal? In 2004 eleven states in the United States approved same-sex marriage as a constitutional heterosexual institution (CNN.com) Recently the issue of same sex marriage has been on the minds of Americans along with the puzzling question of whether or not it should be legal. The fight for same-sex marriage is still going strong, yet many people frown upon the idea of people of the same-sex marrying. They

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Immigration Theories

    Immigration Theories

    Despite on all complexity of political life in the modern world, the variety of political parties and public organizations has already been defined for couple of centuries by authority of liberal and conservative doctrines. Both liberalism and conservatism represents the complex of political principles, which have experienced crucial historical changes. These contrast ideologies not only will be defined in the essay, but also the origin of them will be explained. Some state that “all modern

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Mike
  • Immigration an Open or Closed Door

    Immigration an Open or Closed Door

    "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breath free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore; send these, the homeless, the tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" This quote was written by Emma Lazarus and is the most famous one on the statue of liberty today. This quote represents what America was founded on, immigration. Even with this, immigration today is a growing topic of

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The Lot of the Immigrant Past Present and Future

    The Lot of the Immigrant Past Present and Future

    Jason Sharkey Ms. Satter English #5 May 15 06 The lot of the immigrant past present and future America has since its founding as a nation, been a nation composed of immigrants and decedents of immigrants. Throughout our history it has been a blessing for us. Our country had the diversity of culture that so many other countries lacked, and it was this diversity that allowed us to develop so quickly because the fertile mix

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    Essay Length: 480 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Acre of Trees Cut Illegally? City Orders Vinyard Project Halted

    Acre of Trees Cut Illegally? City Orders Vinyard Project Halted

    Forest Newsie #1 Acre of Trees Cut Illegally? City Orders Vinyard Project Halted Novato Advance By Dan Stebbins/Executive Editor An Ignacio, California is in hot water over a large-scale illegal tree cutting to create a vineyard. Homeowners, Robert and Marsha Lang, have been ordered by Novato’s code enforcement officers to immediately stop work on the harvesting of their four acre lot , on which they also reside. An estimated 40 trees on one acre had

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Top
  • Distributive Justice: Immigration

    Distributive Justice: Immigration

    Distributive Justice: Immigration Distributive justice is the type of justice that deals with how the goods and services of a particular society are distributed among its members. In America, as in all societies, the distribution of goods and services is not completely equal, but distributive justice describes what the community should be aiming at. Democratic governments, such as the one in place in America, have disproportionate distribution of goods and services because of the way

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Anna
  • Immigration: Should America Close Its Golden Doors?

    Immigration: Should America Close Its Golden Doors?

    Immigration: Should America close its Golden Doors? America has, is, and will always be a nation of immigrants: the great melting pot. In the years that have passed since Emma Lazarus’ poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, “the golden door” has seen times when it was open wide and times when it was closed shut to almost all immigrants; what really is an American anyway? An American is someone who loves their country

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Cloning Should Not Be Illegal

    Cloning Should Not Be Illegal

    Cloning is a very controversial topic because it relates to moral values in human beings. In February 1997 scientists in Scotland announced the birth of the first cloned sheep named Dolly, this began the future of cloning possibilities. Scientists began extensive experiments on cloning and have cloned both plants and animals successfully. The next step was to clone an actual human being, but before experiments could have been carried out pressure started to build on

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: July
  • Polish Immigration

    Polish Immigration

    Polish Family History The first appearances of Polish people in America occurred in 1608. Some of these Poles were hired by the London Company to bring their industry skills to Jamestown. The Poles created glass house shops, and pitch and potash burners. These products became some of the first exports of Jamestown. As a result of their success more Poles were invited to America. They were always cooperative and willing workers. In 1619 more Poles

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Jack
  • A Nation of Immigrants Book Review

    A Nation of Immigrants Book Review

    The book I read was “A Nation of Immigrants,” it was written by Mr. John F. Kennedy. The book was fantastic; it was about the start of immigrants coming into this nation. It spoke about how they fled there country for a new life in America and would do anything to get here. Some would wait days, months and even years to get sworn in as an American citizen. Many immigrants fled Nazi persecution and

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Yan
  • Immigration

    Immigration

    Immigration Like many other areas over the past years, US have seen a rapid increase in immigrants who have come to the region seeking better lives for their families. These immigrants, like those throughout U.S. history, are generally hard workers and make important contributions to the economy through their productive labor and purchasing power. Most immigrants usually fill essential service jobs in the economy, which are vacant. Unfortunately, like new immigrants throughout U.S. history, "they

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    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Abortion - Legal to Illegal and Back Again

    Abortion - Legal to Illegal and Back Again

    Abortion From being legal to illegal and back again, abortion has been through a long and tough struggle around the world and especially in the United States. Many people see abortion as different kinds of procedures and operations, but there can only be one scientific explanation for the procedure that has been on the minds of millions. Abortion has been around ever since people have been able to write about it. In the early

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Jon
  • Immigration Rights

    Immigration Rights

    Immigration Rights Elian Gonzalez, a Cuban citizen, came across on a make-shift smuggling boat along with his mother and twelve other people. The boat came across some rough weather and it was capsized. Elian’s mother as well as ten other people died on their journey to America. The only survivors were Elian and his two friends, one boy and one girl (n.p.). This story is just one example of the risk that immigrants are willing

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Yan
  • Immigration in Usa

    Immigration in Usa

    Nick Molden 10/24 ENGG Immigration As much as our country is hailed as the “melting pot” nation of the world, the United States seems to have a big problem when it comes to immigration. The ironic factor here is that the white people running our country are immigrants themselves. Europeans emigrated across the Atlantic in large numbers during the 1600’s to find a land promising freedom of worship and free destiny. It was a promise

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Top
  • Immigration a Benefit for Canada

    Immigration a Benefit for Canada

    “The People of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.” (Paul Martin). Immigration started in the mid 1700s and is still continuing today. It plays an important role in developing Canada’s economy, as well as shaping the nation into a multicultural nation. Immigration

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Cultural Interview and Assessment of a Muslim Immigrant

    Cultural Interview and Assessment of a Muslim Immigrant

    Cultural Interview and Assessment of a Muslim Immigrant Nursing 464 University of Phoenix November 13, 2006 In rural central Kentucky there are is not a notable cultural diversity as seen in larger more populated areas. In fact, most immigrants are migrant workers from Mexico or Guatemala. However, there are a small number of Muslim immigrants from the Middle East. Muslims are a very religious culture that some would consider a strict sect. In Danville,

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Janna
  • Racism in British Immigration

    Racism in British Immigration

    RACISM IN BRITISH IMMIGRATION Introduction The purpose of this paper is that to highlight what I see as racist, unjust and inhumane elements in Britain’s immigration system and the culture of secrecy surrounds it. The permanent residents (who has indefinite leave to remain), central to this discussion not the illegal immigrants and bogus asylum seekers. Also immigration’s treatments of people coming over to Britain for a range of other reasons and with papers and visas

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Janna
  • Immigration to Canada

    Immigration to Canada

    Early immigration to Canada was generated by a network of emigration agents who were salesman who advertised to Canada's attraction's to prospected immigrants. They targeted wealthy farmers, agricultural laborers and female domestics, preferably from Great Britain, the United States and Northern Europe. Canada's first immigration legislation, the Immigration Act of 1869 reflected the laissez-faire philosophy of the time by not saying which classes of immigrants should be admitted but , merely that the "governor" could

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Steve
  • Irish Immigrants in Boston

    Irish Immigrants in Boston

    The life of Irish immigrants in Boston was one of poverty and discrimination. The religiously centered culture of the Irish has along with their importance on family has allowed the Irish to prosper and persevere through times of injustice. Boston’s Irish immigrant population amounted to a tenth of its population. Many after arriving could not find suitable jobs and ended up living where earlier generations had resided. This attributed to the “invisibility” of the Irish.

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Edward
  • Immigration: Did They Find the Golden Door?

    Immigration: Did They Find the Golden Door?

    When many immigrants came to America during the 1900s, they envisioned a land of opportunity where they would find “the Golden Door” and the streets were “paved with gold.” There was much talk about how anyone could be rich in America and how people were not persecuted. This is not what it turned out to be. Coming to America caused more problems for the newcomers than they would have had if they stayed in the

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Immigrants

    Immigrants

    I Believe in Winning When people think of winning, they think of money, for example gambling and betting. I asked a friend what he thought the definition of winning was, and he said "To be successful". The definition the dictionary gives is "be successful over others; get victory or success". To me winning is to achieve, be it either a goal or a bet, it's to triumph. Cesar Estrada Chavez, a enigmatic leader who fought

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Edward

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